PING: Market Based RankingURL: http://www.jurispundit.com/2005/03/market-based-ranking.htmlIP: 70.178.234.107BLOG NAME: JurisPunditDATE: 03/23/2005 05:18:17 PMInteresting new ranking system…

In case you missed it, the good folks at the Social Science Research Network now are ranking law schools based on number of papers downloaded from the SSRN database.  The Top 20 over the past 12 months are:

1 Harvard Law School
2 Stanford Law School
3 University of Chicago Law School
4 Columbia Law School
5 UCLA School of Law
6 University of Texas School of Law
7 George Mason University School of Law
8 University of California, Berkeley School of Law
9 Yale Law School
10 University of Virginia School of Law
11 George Washington University Law School
12 Georgetown University Law Center
13 New York University School of Law
14 Vanderbilt University School of Law
15 University of San Diego School of Law
16 University of Pennsylvania School of Law
17 University of Illinois College of Law
18 Boston University School of Law
19 University of Michigan Law School
20 Fordham University School of Law